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The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, Winter, was published in 1726, and the completed poem cycle appeared in 1730. [1] The poem was extremely influential, and stimulated works by Joshua Reynolds, John Christopher Smith, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner. [1]
John Desmond Sheridan (1903–1980) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and humourist. [1] He was a frequent contributor to the Irish Independent newspaper. In addition to his novels and essays, he also published several books of poetry, and authored a biography of poet James Clarence Mangan in 1937.
While When the Wind Blows and The Lake House focused more on characterization, suspense, and the moral implications of genetic engineering, the "Maximum Ride" series was a science fiction adventure. Patterson included a foreword to the first Maximum Ride book explaining that it took place in a different continuity and the similarities were ...
The poem begins with three sections describing the wind's effects upon earth, air, and ocean. In the last two sections, the poet speaks directly to the wind, asking for its power, to lift him up and make him its companion in its wanderings. The poem ends with an optimistic note which is that if winter days are here then spring is not very far.
"The Wind" shows great inventiveness in its choice of metaphors and similes, while employing extreme metrical complexity. [9] It is one of the classic examples [10] [11] of the use of what has been called "a guessing game technique" [12] or "riddling", [13] a technique known in Welsh as dyfalu, comprising the stringing together of imaginative and hyperbolic similes and metaphors.
The exact chronological and interpretive orders of the six 1819 poems are unknown, but "Ode to Psyche" was probably written first and "To Autumn" last. [6] Keats simply dated the others May 1819. However, he worked on the spring poems together, and they form a sequence within their structures. [7]
James Dudley Houston (November 10, 1933 – April 16, 2009) was an American novelist, poet and editor. He wrote nine novels and a number of non-fiction works (some co-authored and/or edited). He wrote nine novels and a number of non-fiction works (some co-authored and/or edited).
If Winter Comes made the Publishers Weekly best seller list for 1922, [6] and was the best-selling book in the United States for all of that year. [6] A tie-in edition was published in 1947 at the time of the second film, and a paperback version was published in the 1960s, but it eventually lapsed into near-complete obscurity'.